ETWN reporter Owen Johnson slammed White House press secretary Jen Psaki during a press conference on Wednesday when asked about President Biden’s changes to Title X.
Psaki explained that the president’s intention with the change of title X was to provide equity to ‘historically underserved’ communities affected by ‘persistent poverty’ when Johnson asked about the allocation of funds for family planning by the government.
Johnson, the White House correspondent for ETWN, a Catholic news source, shot back and asked how the greater access to abortions in minority communities fits the bill.
“How is it fair, how does systematic racism fight when abortion, as we all know, affects minority children?” he asked.
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Psaki replied that Title X funding “could not be used for abortion” but would be used to promote access to health care in disadvantaged communities.
Johnson tried to follow it up, but he was shot down when Psaki snapped, “I think I answered your question.”
Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the amendments made to the program will restore grants to abortion providers, such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which was previously stripped by the Trump administration.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which previously challenged Trump’s gag rule ‘in court and considered it’ cruel and vicious’, applauded Biden’s government for starting to reverse it.
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The Trump policy will remain in force until it is formally replaced by the Biden rule, a process that could take months.
Fox News’ Sam Dorman contributed to this report.